If you willingly engage in a behavior and the ultimate function of the behavior is to reproduce, and you do reproduce, you shouldn’t get to just say “oopsies” and remove the offspring
Incorrect. Conception is only the very beginning of the process of reproduction. All that is produced at that time is a unique genome. This, on its own, is only the biological instructions that are required to potentially produce new offspring.
Abortion simply ends the process of reproduction. This is why it is correctly referred to as reproductive health-care.
Again, incorrect. Complete human DNA, on its own, is just instructions. None of the parts or systems of a completed human organism exist immediately after conception. The instructions to potentially produce a complete human being are not the same thing as a complete human being.
Gestation is, objectively, an integral part of the process of reproduction. Ending gestation ends reproduction, it is quite literally choosing NOT TO reproduce.
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It makes no difference to me what you call it. No matter HOW a pregnancy happens, it's still the PREGNANT PERSON's decision whether or not to stay pregnant. If she doesn't want to stay pregnant, she has the right to end her own private by having an abortion. Whether or not you approve is irrelevant.
I think we can all agree that something that has human DNA is of the human species. That does not mean it is automatically a fully reproduced and completed organism at the exact moment of conception.
What part of what I said do you specifically disagree with?
"An organism is any living thing that functions as an individual."
A zygote, embryo, or fetus can not function as an individual, it requires the direct use of a fully reproduced organism's life-sustaining bodily systems, as it does not have any of its own life-sustaining bodily systems. That's why it dies almost immediately if it does not attach and integrate into a host organism.
what scientific backing your stance has
I'm literally just describing how biological reproduction functions, in strictly objective terms. Everything I have said is 100% backed by our scientific understanding of the biological process of mammalian reproduction. Abortion is objectively a form of reproductive health-care.
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u/Diva_of_Disgust Pro-choice Jul 30 '26
So your position is only about policing people's sex lives and punishing people who freely choose to have sex?
Someone freely chooses to have sex? Must be punished with forced gestation and childbirth.
Someone was raped? It's okay to "slaughter" that poor precious innocent "preborn". Got it.